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圣玛窦福音 Matthew 9:36—10:8
那时候，耶稣一见到群众，就对他们动了慈心，因为他们困苦流离，好像没有牧人的羊。于是，耶稣对自己的门徒说：「庄稼多，工人少，所以，你们应当求庄稼的主人，派遣工人，来收割他的庄稼。」 耶稣将他的十二门徒叫来，授予他们制伏邪魔的权柄，可以驱逐邪魔，医治各种病症，各种疾苦。这是十二宗徒的名字：第一个是称为伯多禄的西满，和他的兄弟安德肋，载伯德的儿子雅各伯，和他的弟弟若望，斐理伯和巴尔多禄茂，多默和税吏玛窦，阿耳斐的儿子雅各伯和达陡，热诚者西满，和负卖耶稣的犹达斯依斯加略。耶稣派遣这十二人，嘱咐他们说：「外邦人的路，你们不要走；撒玛黎雅人的城，你们不要进；你们宁可往以色列家迷失了的羊那里去。你们在路上，应宣讲说：天国临近了。病人，你们要治好；死人，你们要復活；痲疯病人，你们要洁净；魔鬼，你们要驱逐；你们白白得来的，也要白白分施。」──上主的话。
At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him. Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
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